Alliah L. Agostini has marketed everything from tampons to scrappy start-ups, but motherhood helped her return to her first love: children's literature. She is the author of The Juneteenth Story and Big Tune, which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Alliah has an A.B. and an M.B.A. from Harvard, and is a member of KidLit in Color, Black Creators HQ, the Picture Book Sunrays, and SCBWI. Find her online at www.alliahagostini.com and @alliago Olivia de Castro is an illustrator who grew up in a Colombian-Dominican family in Verona, New Jersey. She graduated from Pratt Institute, and is the illustrator of How to Speak in Spanglish, by Mónica Mancillas, and Cute Toot, by Breanna J. McDaniel. When she isn't drawing, she can be found binging true crime documentaries and cooking spicy food in her kitchen in Brooklyn. Find her online @oliviadecastroart Fans of mother-daughter books like Oge Mora’s Saturday and problem-solving stories like Ashley Spires’s The Most Magnificent Thing Kids who love to “help” their busy parents, and the parents who don’t need their “help” Black families who want fun, relatable picture books with Black representation Teachers with “helpful” kids in their classrooms